Aerodynamics of Road Vehicles (5th Edition)

The detailed presentations of fundamental aerodynamics principles that influence and improve vehicle design have made this book the engineer's "source" for information. This fifth edition features updated and expanded information beyond that which was presented in previous releases. Completely new content covers lateral stability, safety and comfort, wind noise, high performance vehicles, helmets, engine cooling, and computational fluid dynamics. A proven, successful engineering design approach is presented that includes: Fundamentals of fluid mechanics related to vehicle aerodynamics; Essential experimental results that are the ground rules of fluid mechanics; Design strategies for individual experimental results; General design solutions from combined experimental results. The aerodynamics of passenger cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles, sports cars, and race cars is dealt with in detail, inclusive of systems, testing techniques, measuring and numerical aerodynamics methods and simulations that significantly contribute to vehicle development.